[TYPO3-core] RFC: #9863: [Feature] Adding sysext tsbrowser

[Uschi Renziehausen]

Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Uschi Renziehausen wrote:
>> the most important change difference to me is that you *see* your
>> current settings, i.e. what is the result of what all those extensions
>> and you yourself have done to your template! In the normal tsbrowser you
>> see each and every option, which is not helpfull when you just want to
>> know what your config key results in.
> 
> TS object browser shows final TS: your own TS overrides TS provided
> by extensions. Or do you mean something different?
> 

This is exactly what I mean.

>> And you have it where you need it: directly beneath under your setup
>> area, you just need scroll a little up and down, and all you want is at
>> your hand.
> 
> How does it help you in your work? I am interested in practical
> value for people other than me.
> 

OK, here my usual scenario: you are somewhere in your pagetree and want 
to adapt certain parts of your template. Now, with Steffens ext, you can 
   quickly browse to the path you want, copy it to your textarea, change 
it's value and your are done without ever leaving your textarea.

Once I detected the TSConfig browser, I loved it because it solved a lot 
of riddles for me. Would be nice when that one would not be hidden under 
Configuration btw., but at the same place where Steffens tsbrowser is 
now. At least I usually open up a second window/tab to have it at hand 
when adapting my tsconfig for a certain page.
And yes, I could do with a TSConfig browser that also shows me what user 
  TSConfig might have an influence on what I see.


> And I still would like to know why cannot such extension be
> installed by you from TER ;)
> 

Well, of course I am able to install it from TER, but template 
TypoScript and TSConfig are what you have to do with from your first 
typo3 site onwards without any ext installed. So convenient ways to deal 
with it should be provided by the core itself. Franz H stated in a 
posting further up that he thinks it sufficient "to write some 
documentation about additional Core enhancing extensions, maybe also as 
help text". Thinking back to my first half year with typo3 I must say 
that I disagree with him here. Especially beginners are completely lost 
in the documentation, and you will not install an ext before you have 
understood what ts is for. You might go the irc channel or the news 
groups and there you might get the tip. In my eyes that adds complexity.

I hope I could unwind the foldings of my brain in an understandable way.

Kind regards, Uschi